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In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily - which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'
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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
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It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
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